Correlative meaning

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Related; corresponding.
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Indicating a reciprocal or complementary relationship.

A correlative conjunction.

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A correlative word or expression.
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Having or involving a mutual relationship; reciprocally dependent.

Correlative rights and duties.

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Either of two correlative entities; a correlate.
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Expressing mutual relation and used in pairs.

In “Neither Tom nor I can go,” “neither” and “nor” are correlative conjunctions.

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A thing closely related to something else.
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A correlative word.
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Either of two correlative things.
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(grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu ‘who’ (which person?), iu ‘someone’ (some person), tie ‘there’ (that place), ĉie ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.
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Correlative Sentence Examples

  • But if these three correlative facts are immediately given, it seems to be thought possible by Cousin to vindicate them in reflective consciousness.

  • (d) The correlative process of Combination is less elaborately sketched, but in a luminous passage in the Politicus (§ 278), in explaining by means of an example the nature and of examples, Plato represents it as the bringing use P ?

  • The rules of kinship largely determined status with its correlative rights and obligations, supplied the place of contract and of laws affecting the ownership, disposition and devolution of property, constituting the clan an organic, selfcontained entity, a political, social and mutual insurance copartnership. The solidarity of the clan was its most important and all-pervading characteristic. The entire territory occupied by a clan was the common and absolute property of that clan.

  • 5 The Organum and the History are thus correlative, and form the two equally necessary sides of a true philosophy; by their union the new philosophy is produced.

  • correlative obligation to procreate ).

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